Politics of Discretion in Electronic Transmission: Will 2027 Elections Deliver?, By Perez Adekunle
In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx asserts that, “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please;...
Nigeria’s Digital Hustle Economy: Innovation or Institutional Failure?, By Vanessa Emeadi
A growing narrative suggests that digital entrepreneurship is solving Nigeria’s unemployment crisis. It is not. What it has done instead is reorganise how unemployment...
When the Iroko Answers the Ancestors: A Dirge for BJThe drum has spoken in...
The talking drum bends low; its leather voice trembles.
An iroko has answered the call of the forest.
Professor Biodun Jeyifo has gone the way of...
The architecture of achievement: Why clarity, not genius, wins the exam season, by Ruth...
If you’ve ever sat in a Nigerian exam hall—whether it’s JAMB, WAEC, or those brutal university finals—you know that feeling. The air is thick...
Electoral integrity: Technology is not the only answer, By Abimbola Adelakun
The arguments advanced by the lawmakers against the compulsory “real-time” electronic transmission of polling-unit results to the public results portal were reasonable, though disappointing....
Jakande’s servant mindsets remain evergreen, by Lai Olurode
Remarks made at the 5th anniversary of the passing of the first civilian governor of Lagos state, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, February 11, 2026.
Human...
From Shock to Shrug: Nigeria and the Normalisation of Violence, By Seun Perez Adekunle
In the famous Pirates of the Caribbean films, Tortuga is introduced as a place where disorder has settled in and made it comfortable. It...
Something good is happening in Abia politics, By Taiwo Adisa
“No permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests,” is a quote largely attributed to Lord Palmerston, a 19th-century British Statesman. It is a...
Akpabio’s Gaddafi and Mrs Tinubu’s Trump honour, by Festus Adedayo
I am reading a copy of Marcel Dirsus’ How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. A 2024 non-fiction book, in it, Dirsus examines historical...
Oshiomhole: From radical to rascal, by Abimbola Adelakun
What struck me about the recent viral video of Adams Oshiomhole caressing the feet of a young woman on a chartered jet is that...
